Transferring device



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TRANSFERRING DEVICE Filed July 8, 1952 Patented Jan. 23, j1934 UNITED sTATi-:s PATENT carica TRANSFERRING DEVICE Paul Schnfeld, Chemnitz', Germany' Application July 8, 1932, Serial No. 621,449, and in Germany August 6, 1931 3 Claims. (Cl. (i6-148) This invention relates to a transferring device. transfer of a portion ofgoods with turned over y In order to connect knit goods with goods of edge the needle bar of av cotton frame, which is a different kind or gauge it is customary to turn fitted with barbed needles, but since the hooked over the portion to be transferred to a knitting needles of a cotton frame do not possess holding 5 frame or machine on the edge where it is to .be means, the roll above them will become so small '60 picked up so as to cause the neddles of the frame that it will hardly be possible to carry out this or machine to penetrate twice the transferred process on an ordinary transferring device, as edge of the portion. Transferring itself may be the goods can be taken oi from the device by preparatorily carried out by means of a transmeans of a regular transfer bar under great ferring device of known type, such as is used in difficulties only and scarcely be transmitted to a 65 connection with every cotton hosiery machine, knitting machine. so that all that is necessary is to run the picked Two embodiments of the invention are illusup portion on tothe needles of a knitting frame trated in the accompanying drawing, in which or machine by means of a, transfer bar. How- Figures 1 to 5 show how the transferring process ever, this method is quite wearisome and diiiicult, 'is carried out, the needle bar of one transferring 70 since it is left more or less to the skill of the device being disclosed to simplify matters.

` operator to prevent that in some spots more or In Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 the transferring process fewer courses are caught than elsewhere. on the needle bar of one of the usual transferring To overcome these drawbacks it has been prodevices is shown up to the point of transmitting 2o posed to arranged the portion of the goods to be the goods to the transfer bar proper, the holding 75 transferred on the firm edge of aA holding demeans, which limits the drawing back of the vice provided on this edge with uniformly spaced transferred portion for the purpose of turning depressions, so that the goods depend from this it over, being formed merely by needles fitted edge on both sides and may be hung on or otherwith small hooks which are lled up at the wise attached to the edge by means of an ordiheads.

nary hanging-in or transfer bar which is inserted Fig. 5 shows how the holding means is formed in the goods through the depressions of the fixed by a wire corresponding to the width of the deedge. The device for carrying out this method vice and held in position by small hooks which consists preferably of a buckled needle bar or cormay, for instance, form part of hooked needles.

3c rugated plate in connection with an ordinary The needle bar l of the transferring device com- 8 5 hanging-in or transfer bar. The application prises, besides the usual pointed needles 2, at of this method requires therefore aspecial device, certain spots and preferably at a uniform diswhich should be avoided. tance fromone another the needles 3 which are This can be done according to the invention, by fitted with small hooks lled up, at the heads,

rendering the known transferring devices with approximately to an extent corresponding to 90 which every knitting framev or machine is the width a'. equipped suitable for preparing the transfer of a To transfer a portion of goods with 'a turned goods section with turned over edge. For this over edge the portion d is first run on the needles purpose the needle bar of a transferring device or pins 2 and 3 of the needle bar' 1, as shown 4c of known type is provided, directly behind the in Fig. 1, whereupon, as indicated in Fig. 2, the 95 needle points, with a holding means up to which entire portion 4 is drawn back again towards the goods run on the needles may be drawn back the points of the needles without turning overand then turned over the needle heads, so that the top part, the lled up heads of the needles the needles will pierce the goods a second time 3 limiting this withdrawal of the part 4 to the when they are drawn again towards the needle width :r which corresponds to the filled up por- 10Q bar. In this way the small roll produced above tion of thevheads. The portion 4 is now pierced y the transfer line by the turning over of the porby all the needles 2 and 3. Then the top strip 5A tion of the goods concerned will be perfectly uniof the portion 4 is turned over, as indicated in form, and all difficulties are thus eliminated. Fig. 3, so as to be on a plane parallel .to that of I The holding means may be formed by needles prothe portion 4, and when the entire portion 4, 105

vided with hooks and filled up at their heads as'shown in 4, is drawn back again towards for this purpose or a wire corresponding to the the needle bar l, the points of the needles 2 and width of the transferring device may be inserted 3 will pierce the portion 4 onthe strip 5 a vsecond in the hooked needles. time.

It has been proposed already to employior the The small roll formed by doubling up and 110 positioned above the transfer line will be perfectly uniform and by the holding. means, which, in this instance, is formed by the filled up heads of the hooked needles 3, dimensioned so that the transferred portion 4 may be readily taken oi in the usual way by means of the transfer bar 6 of known type, as indicated in Fig. 4.

Fig. 5 shows how the device may be altered by tting the needle bar l of the transferring device wholly or partly with ordinary needles 7 possessing a hookbut having their heads not When the transferring operation is finished the Wire 8 may be withdrawn laterally.

It is immaterial whether the needle bar 1 of the transferring device is fitted wholly or partly with needles having such a small hook.

I claim:-

1. A device for transferring knitted goods from one knitting frame or machine to another, comprising a bar having a plurality of pins of which a number are provided with hooks on the ends of the pins which are illled up a substantial distance back from the point of the hook to prevent the goods from slipping off the pins.

2. A device according to claim in which the lled up portions of the hooks of the number of the pins form integral parts of the hooks. k

3. A device according to claim l, in which the filled up portions of the hooks of the number of pins comprises a removable wire provided in the hooks.

PAUL SCHONFELD.

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